Improved washing-machine



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL P. sHoPE, oE MILEsBUEG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPRO'VED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification formi-ng part of Letters Patent No.` 3 l,004, dated December 18, 1860.

and Improved VVashingMaehine for Washing Clothes; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying draw-y ings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. v

I make a box three feet three inches long and twenty ,finches wide atthe top, two feet five inches long and twenty inches wide at the bottom, ten inches deep, with four legs extending fourteen inches downward from the bottom of said box in a sloping manner, as per drawing. Twenty inches from the end of the upper side of said box, on the outer side thereof, I screw on perpendiculars on each side, one

. inch thick and two and a half inches wide,

twenty-seven and a half inches from the bottom board,.as a guide and support for the movable frame work hereinafter named. These perpendiculars are marked in perspective View of the machine, Fig. 1, as D D. These arev connected at the top by a strip of wood three-eighths of an inch thick and two and a half inches wide. In the upper end of these perpendienlars there are 4openings (marked E E, )one inch wide and five and ahalf inches long. Outside ofthese perpendiculars there are two pieces one-half inch thick, three feet long, and one and a half inch wide. These are connected by pieces G G, which are movable or roll in said pieces F F. Into the upper cross-piece, G, the upper rubber is framed as follows: Two pieces (marked H) one inch thick, one and one-fourth inch wide at the top, two and one-fourth inchlesbelow, and fourteen and a half inches long. They are tenanted into I, which is nine inches long, one and one-fourth inch deep at each end, and one and three-fourths inch in the center, with a circular finish below. To these circular sides there extends a number of strips with a raised bead on the lower side-say threefourths of an inch apart-making what I call the upper rubber, C, perforated with holes onehalf inch in diameter, also side pieces from I to I, constituting the soap-box.

rubber on the rollers, which are eleven in number, and one inch in diameter. rIhey rest with their pivots, which are made of one-fourth inch wire, and inserted in the ends of them, on piece marked K. Vhen thus placed, the piece marked L is placed thereon to keep the rolle'rs in theirplaces. The back part of this piece must be hollowed out behind, so as to let S work freely behind it.

Fig. 3 is designed to show the attachment of the lleverage to the rubber. On-H there is a small cast-iron plate, in the center of which there is a small projection to work freely in the opening in S, which is placed on a line with upper side of I.

The dimensions of the levers are as follows: S is eight inches long, A is four inches from outer angle, Vis two inches, U is six and a half inches, B is nine inches, and B b fifteen inches, three eighths of an inch thick, and about one and three-fourths inch wide. This con stitutesthe leverage, and is of wrought or cast iron.

The movable frame that controls the press-1 ure of the rubber upon the rollers is governed by a foot-brake, W, and two spiral .springs attached to the bottom of the box and piece v I These springs jthrow the rubber' up from the rollers, which marked G, one on cach side.

V, U, B, and B b, and spiral springs, as shown l and described, for the purposes set forth.

' DANIEL P. SIIOPE.

Witnesses:

A. C. TURNER, HENRY H. KINNE.

Fig. 2 represents the action of the upper l 

